Water motor



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10 in relation to the water driven wheel whereby the water power is made to act more effectively One Object of the invention is to exceedingly simple device which may Patented June 11, 1940 UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE 2,203,813 WATER MOTOR Ernest A. Burgess, Los Angeles, Calif. Application M... 1, 1939, Serial No 271,078

r 1 Claim.

This invention relates to a water driven motor.

provide an be attached to an ordinary water service faucet in order to utilize the current of water coming therefrom to rotate a shaft by which may be driven various l small appliances, for example, an emery wheel I or small grindstone.

A more specific object of the invention is to provide a superior arrangement of water jets upon said wheel.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention will hereinafter appear.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, which illustrates what is at present deemed to be a preferred embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a longitudinal mid-section of the device.

Fig.2 isa cross-section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a cross-section on line 33 of Fig. l.

Referring in detail to the drawing, the cylindrical conduit ID has its intake end formed with a diametrically enlarged portion having an A circular partition plate portion of tube In from the remainder thereof, said plate abutting the annular shoulder Hat.

The side of said plate opposite to said shoulder l is engaged by a gasket l5 which forms a water tight fit between the plate and pipe IS. A plu- .rality of pointed set screws H are circumferentiallygrouped around the unthreaded outer part of the tube portion II for use in connecting the device onto unthreaded pipes, said screws l5, and a thickened shouldered part provided for them. By the construction which has been described being inclined in such a manner as to cause the end of the pipe to be urged against the gasket Ha being the device is adapted for being connected up with the indoor type of non-threaded faucet, or onto exteriorly threaded out door faucets.

Diametrically across the tube In extends a rotatable shaft having bearings 26 in the sides of said tube. To this shaft is secured, within said tube, a water wheel 2! having a plurality of radial vanes 28, a sufiicient number of; such vanes being shown in the drawing to utilize efficiently the force obtainable from the streams of water 32.

The nozzle is shown provided with a plurality of adjacent parallel discharge or jet tubes (or. ass-440) 3| which, in the illustrated embodiment are positioned to direct three independent but adjacent streams 32 of water against the outer portion of each vane of the water wheel as it approaches that side of the tube ll] toward which the streams from the nozzle are directed. As viewed in Fig. 1 each blade or vane 28 has its outer portion 35 deflected in the anticlockwise direction, thus causing the streams from the nozzle to act upon that face of each passing vane occupied by the inner angle between the main part'of the vane and its deflected portion. This construction provides for an efficient driving of the water wheel in the clockwise direction.

The water streams 32 are delivered as close to each other as possible without being intermingled. The same quantity of water per unit of time, delivered through other means has not been found so effective for driving miniature water wheels.

Each vane 28 is made of the proper length to .come close to but safely clear the adjacent wall of the tube It), and has its semicircular free edge portion curved to conform to said wall.

The shaft 25 may be utilized to drive various appliances or small machines. In the drawing an emery wheel 4| is shown secured to said shaft, and to the outer end of the shaft is attached, by a coupler 42 a flexible shaft section 43 which may be. driven by a small amount of power.

A guard member is provided, which consists of a plate 44 underlying the jet tubes 3| and extending from. side to side of the tube I0, said member having a deflected end portion consisting of a semicircular plate 45 which prevents back flow of water from the water wheel 21. Said guard member is carried by and desirably formed integral with the partition plate l2. The jet tubes 3| fit within openings 3| provided for them in the-disk l2 and are secured to said disk by welds w.

the curvature of For the purpose of preventing water from as to dispose the acute angle 5| at that side of the tube toward which the streams of water are directed. This construction offers freeness of 6 to the position shown in Fig. 1.

necessary to connect to an unthreaded supply water delivery even though a short tube I0 is used.

The jet tubes 3| together with the plate l2, M and constitute an assembly of parts which is readily insertable into the intake end of the device to a position wherein the peripheral portion of the plate l2 abuts against the shoulder I20: at the juncture of the body portion of thetube It with its diametrically enlarged part H. The gasket i5 is next put into place and then the part H may be screwed on Or, if it is pipe or smooth faucet spout, the set screws I! are utilized to urge the device into a water tight relation to the supply pipe. c

The jet tubes 3| and plate 44 abut against each other along a curved plane and are secured together by elongated welds x in a very secure manner. The curved character of said tubes enables the workman to bore the holes 3! at right angles to the disk l2, thus making it easier to form said holes.

to the pipe What is claimed is:

In a device of the kind described, a cylindrical conduit, a rotatable shaft extending diametrically throughsaid conduit and having a power delivery portion outside of said conduit, a water wheel secured to said shaft within said conduit, said water wheel having vanes the extremities of which are deflected in the same circumferential direction, a nozzle structure arranged to direct a plurality of adjacent parallel streams of water against said vanes as they pass through the space between said shaft and one side of said tube, said streams being inclined in relation to the axis of said conduit in a direction to cause them to strike upon that face of each passing vane occupied by the inner angle between the main part of the vane and its deflected portion, the discharge end of said cylindrical conduit being cut across on a bias the acute angle of which is located at that side of the conduit toward which the aforesaid streams of water are directed, and a screen secured over said conduit.

said discharge end of ERNEST A. BURGESS. 

